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MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. 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MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5268,MED5269,MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. 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MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: £15.19 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7390 Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: £16.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5268,MED5269,MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: £24.08 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: £19.65 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: £22.34 Now: £21.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: £22.34 Was: £22.34 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3406,MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: £13.36 Was: £13.36 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: £9.83 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5268,MED5269,MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: £24.08 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5474 John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: £22.34 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5478 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: £15.18 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History | sku: MED5402 Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... 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MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5478 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: £15.18 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History | sku: MED5402 Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: £19.65 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... 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Quick view sku: X98312K Andrew Bielenberg / The Irish Diaspora (Large Paperback) This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britian and the British Empire. On... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED838 Bryan Cooper - The Tenth ( Irish) Division in Gallipoli - HB Facsimile Reprint ( Originally 1917) This history covers the period from the raising of the division to its departure from Gallipoli for Macedonia in October 1915. It was the first divisional history to appear in print, and it is a matter for regret that its scope is so narrow a one. As a... 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... MSRP: Now: £26.36 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3579 Ciara O'Dowd - Wild-Looking But Fine - Abbey Theatre Actressses of the 1930s - PB - BRAND NEW Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their independent lives. They are united by one thing: a... 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MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: £15.19 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5268,MED5269,MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: £24.08 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: £19.65 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: £22.34 Now: £21.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: £22.34 Was: £22.34 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3406,MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: £13.36 Was: £13.36 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: £9.83 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. 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Quick view sku: MED838 Bryan Cooper - The Tenth ( Irish) Division in Gallipoli - HB Facsimile Reprint ( Originally 1917) This history covers the period from the raising of the division to its departure from Gallipoli for Macedonia in October 1915. It was the first divisional history to appear in print, and it is a matter for regret that its scope is so narrow a one. As a... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG908 Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné )- SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND WITH LETTER ( ALS) FROM CAMILLE SOUTER TO eAVAN BOLAND ENCLOSED Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006. A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) . 1st (and sole) Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: £157.27 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... MSRP: Now: £26.36 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3579 Ciara O'Dowd - Wild-Looking But Fine - Abbey Theatre Actressses of the 1930s - PB - BRAND NEW Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their independent lives. They are united by one thing: a... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED1148 Justin Dolan Stover - Enduring Ruin : Environmental Destruction During the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: £15.19 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7390 Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: £16.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5268,MED5269,MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: £24.08 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5474 John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: £22.34 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5478 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: £15.18 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History | sku: MED5402 Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: £11.62 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: £16.97 Now: £15.19 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: £19.65 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: £22.34 Now: £21.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: £22.34 Was: £22.34 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3406,MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: £13.36 Was: £13.36 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: £9.83 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. 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Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG908 Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné )- SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND WITH LETTER ( ALS) FROM CAMILLE SOUTER TO eAVAN BOLAND ENCLOSED Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006. A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) . 1st (and sole) Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: £157.27 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... 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THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: £24.08 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: £19.65 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: £22.34 Now: £21.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: £22.34 Was: £22.34 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3406,MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: £13.36 Was: £13.36 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: £9.83 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. 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Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... MSRP: Now: £26.36 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3579 Ciara O'Dowd - Wild-Looking But Fine - Abbey Theatre Actressses of the 1930s - PB - BRAND NEW Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their independent lives. They are united by one thing: a... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED1148 Justin Dolan Stover - Enduring Ruin : Environmental Destruction During the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: £15.19 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7390 Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: £16.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5268,MED5269,MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: £24.08 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... 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MSRP: £22.34 Was: £22.34 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3406,MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: £13.36 Was: £13.36 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: £9.83 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. 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MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: £15.19 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7390 Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: £16.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5268,MED5269,MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: £24.08 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5474 John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: £22.34 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: £16.97 Now: £15.19 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: £19.65 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: £22.34 Now: £21.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: £22.34 Was: £22.34 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3406,MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: £13.36 Was: £13.36 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: £9.83 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. 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Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED1148 Justin Dolan Stover - Enduring Ruin : Environmental Destruction During the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: £15.19 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7390 Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: £16.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5268,MED5269,MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: £24.08 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5474 John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: £22.34 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5478 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: £15.18 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History | sku: MED5402 Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: £11.62 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: £19.65 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: £22.34 Now: £21.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: £22.34 Was: £22.34 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3406,MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: £13.36 Was: £13.36 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: £9.83 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. 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Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. 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His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: £16.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5268,MED5269,MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: £24.08 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: £19.65 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: £22.34 Now: £21.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: £22.34 Was: £22.34 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3406,MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: £13.36 Was: £13.36 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: £9.83 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: £15.19 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5268,MED5269,MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: £24.08 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5474 John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: £22.34 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5478 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: £15.18 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History | sku: MED5402 Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: £11.62 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: £16.97 Now: £15.19 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: £19.65 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: £22.34 Now: £21.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: £22.34 Was: £22.34 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3406,MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: £13.36 Was: £13.36 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: £9.83 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: £15.19 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7390 Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: £16.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. 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Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5268,MED5269,MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: £24.08 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5474 John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: £22.34 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5478 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: £15.18 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History | sku: MED5402 Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... 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MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: £16.97 Now: £15.19 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: £19.65 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: £22.34 Now: £21.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: £22.34 Was: £22.34 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3406,MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: £13.36 Was: £13.36 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: £9.83 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. 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Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5268,MED5269,MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: £24.08 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... 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MSRP: £22.34 Was: £22.34 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3406,MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: £13.36 Was: £13.36 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: £9.83 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. 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Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5268,MED5269,MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: £24.08 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: £19.65 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... 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MSRP: £22.34 Was: £22.34 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3406,MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: £13.36 Was: £13.36 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: £9.83 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5268,MED5269,MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: £24.08 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5474 John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: £22.34 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5478 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: £15.18 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History | sku: MED5402 Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: £16.97 Now: £15.19 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: £19.65 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: £22.34 Now: £21.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: £22.34 Was: £22.34 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3406,MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: £13.36 Was: £13.36 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: £9.83 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5268,MED5269,MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... 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MSRP: £22.34 Was: £22.34 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3406,MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: £13.36 Was: £13.36 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: £9.83 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. 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MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. 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MSRP: £22.34 Was: £22.34 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3406,MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: £13.36 Was: £13.36 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: £9.83 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: £16.97 Now: £15.19 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: £19.65 Now: £14.30 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... 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Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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